Agreed. If I weren’t local, I don’t think I’d make the trip for the half after my experience in January.
I agree. I have also noticed that with the last registration for both Princess (half) and SS (10-miler). Those were the last to sell out. I think the majority of the folks who want the longer race to tend to go for the challenge and there is plenty of demand for the 5K and 10K since those are manageable distances.
I forget when exactly it happened but sometime after the first DL registration it appears as though they've started slowing down the passthrough's to the registration page. It was a glitchy mess back then and I had missed out signing up for the challenge entirely because it kept telling me I didn't fill out the entire page. People were also having a lot of trouble signing up for multiples. It sounds like that's been happening less often these days.
My theory is that the times start super high because so many people have multiple windows open. Mine opened at more than an hour.
I believe you're right, the queues stay live for 10 minutes once through (supposedly) and then probably drop off. I always close the links before sending a queue link and the link still works, so the positions must still be "active."
oh interesting! so if a lot of people had extra queues there could be a time when a lot of the queues in there are not actually being used? I don't know anything about how these systems are set up but did notice that the times drop a lot quickly at the beginning and then level out or go back up.
Just noticed it is now sold out too
You should be able to walk down the sidewalks on Clementine to get to the security checkpoint, go through it, and then walk back up clementine to get into the staging area
Apologies if this was answered and I missed it...
What's interesting is that these sell out times still fall short of the record. The inaugural Star Wars Half at Disneyland saw the challenge sell out in less than 30 minutes.
I also wonder if to some degree, the date played a role. The Disneyland Half this year was on MLK weekend and all previous Disneyland Half Marathons were held on Labor Day weekend. So no holiday weekend this time may impact ability for some to travel.
This time the Half had a lot fewer characters than I remember for previous Half Marathons at Disneyland including Star Wars and Avengers. And a lot fewer photos in the parks last month. I have one in front of the castle during the half. Nothing from Galaxy's Edge. I didn't even see photographers in Avengers Campus. Hopefully, that is one area that they fix up for these races.
I am hopeful they will figure that out. While Coast to Coast challenges will always bring some to Disneyland, this is also an opportunity to showcase Disneyland and its strengths and charms. While of necessity the race experiences will always be different between the two coasts, Disneyland has a lot to offer. I would hope that they want to make sure they put on good race experiences to show off why Disneyland is special in its own right.
Hopefully this is good news for me. I just want to register for the 2025 MW Half. Fingers crossed!
That twitter account suggested joining Telegram - which I did - feels like a SCAM collecting info then said the referenced runDisAlert did not exist... Scam?!? ///Edited, seems some others on here have used that Telegram alert safely, I've simply not gotten it to work.///
Yeah, the presumption is that for one reason or another, they can't do it. Go in with the expectation that they won't have characters outside the parks, hope that they do a better job managing character photo ops inside the parks.
It’s not a scam. I was using them to keep track of when Springtime Surprise spots opened up.
